Truss



(No Model.)

M. R. BARKER.

TRUSS.

No. 414,182. Patented Nov. 5, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON a. BARKER, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA,

TRUSS'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,182, dated November 5, 1889. Application filed March 13,1889. Serial No. 303,114 (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON R. BARKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented a certain new and useful Hernial Truss, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My inventon relates to hernial trusses, and has for its object to provide a truss which shall be universally adjustable.

In the modern treatment of inguinal hernia it is the practice to apply the pad to the head -of the ring and press upward thereon, thus drawing the ring into a slit with contiguous walls, which upon retention and proper treatment for a sufficient time will unite, thus closing the opening. To accomplish this result successfully and in the shortest time, it is necessary that the pressure should be applied at exactly the right spot and in exactly the right direction. As the openings Occur at divers points on the person, and as individuals differ widely among themselves in form and the relative amount of muscular and fatty tissue, it is extremely difficult to obtain a truss capable of the compound adjustment necessary to do the work. I seek to solve the problem by a truss having a universal adjustment, and which is at the same time of such simple construction that the patient can himself effect the adjustment without professional assistance.

To these ends one of the leading features of my invention consists in making the supporting-band in sections and connecting the same by ball-and-socket joints. This enables me to set the pad-supporting section exactly where required for a proper base of resistance without regard to its relation to the hip or body sections of the band. It enables me, for example, to set the pad-section at any angle to the hip-sections, both with reference to the vertical and to the horizontal planes, as Well as at a diiferent level. I then mount the pads on the band in such a manner that they are laterally, an gularly, and transversely adjustable thereon In other words, the truss coupling together the other two.

is universally adjustable, and the pressure can always be applied to the right point in a right line from the base of resistance. I also provide guides for moving the parts truly, and locking devices for securing them 'in their proper relative positions.

In the drawings I have shown the preferred form of my construction. Therein, like letters referring to like parts-- Figure l is a plan View, and Fig. 2 a front elevation, of my invention with pad-section shield removed. Fig. 3 is a plan of the pad section of the supporting-band with pad and shield in position. Fig. at is a horizontal section. Figs. 5 and 6 are Views, in plan and partial section, respectively, of one of the split sockets detached; and Fig. 7 is a front view of the truss in position on a person.

A B O is the supporting-band, of which A represents the front or pad section, 0 the hip or body sections, and B the thigh-sections The hip or body sections are made of suitable spring metalsuch as bronze-conformable to the person, and is flattened Where it bears against the body. The front or pad section is formed with a fiat front and a convex back surface,

and is provided with longitudinal slots a,

conical in cross section, narrowing from the back to a point forward of the middle and then again Widening to the front surface. The pad section is also provided with a central transverse hole a, for the attachment of an umbilical pad, (not shown,) if so desired.

The thigh or coupling sections are, as shown, formed of two strips or stems having half or corresponding segments of sockets on their extremities, and united at their centers in any suitable way, as by a rivet b, The halfsockets, therefore, tend to spring apart from the center of the stems as a base. They are drawn together, When desired, by any suitable clamping device, as the bolt and nut 1), working through transverse holes in the stems adjacent to the half-sockets.

The adjacent extremities of the pad and body sections are provided with spherical heads adapted to fit the sockets on the thigh sections. The interior of the socktts and the exterior oithespheric'al heads are corrugated. The two can therefore be very readily locked together in any desired relative position by the bolt and nut 19.

It will be readily understood that instead of making coupling-sections with sockets on both ends and spherical heads on the adjacentiends of the body and pad sections the construction might be reversed, placing the 1 1 slot at.

' E is he pe the ordinary c ns uctio secured to he f cep ate E a d prov ded, with recess 6.

E i e p s emhead or disk leeated w thin the reeess e a p er e i with th seheir: thteheed. s m F g dly e ured ther te and nrejeeting outwa d thr ugh a cen al hele in he'faeeenlate Efl'ehd eng ng with screw: threaded'hole in the pad'block D.

G is aee ed Sp ing eea d in the ecess and bear ng a a ns the piston with Without anintermediate washer G4 The stem F s prov ded w th t lot f for. operatns the same H are deW l guide pins. gidly secured te. the' eeemete and Work g ehsh. he

rehererse ol s id n he pad-bleek D "I e111 be r adi y en t at t s. c strue..- tieh permits a e a ang lar, an transv r e adjustmen of the na- The l ek D may be mere-11 latera ly on its n -ev seat. a d eeured'a any point by the seese ews D It may el e e urne on tsse a ying with t he pad, and be. tight y ked hereto by the setserews 1) The transverse adjust: lilfiilflh f h va iable p ssur i ef ected y he n s eh F- and t erewthre defl t m F hem the pad-bloc]; as a base of resistance.

. 1h v rtue o e pec l ar shape of the ionei hdih i lot n h peflsections A the shrew-head D nd e s em e permit ed it mited movemen he e n. n r of a rcle: W e prese v g traight-lin heir eats Y The de l-pi e Worki g i he h les cl,

serve t p event h t t g f t e p e n te i sure i s etreieh -l he 1 em ht n ts hem verse adj ment K is a concavmconvex shield of any suit.

ehle et t ma er l, pr f ably m et t aeh to the front side of the pad-section to protect the elothing from disturbance by the set serene, Peele en d nih h h ld the convex surface'of the pad-section are corrugated for better securing the two in their relative adjustment,

ca it i d sired o supp rt umbilica liehhie, the eeet eh of he band the be i1 adjusted t aeeht n eus leve nd th m b ieal se tieh What I claim, and desire to secure by Lettens. Patent let the Unit d tate a 1 011 lows:

1 A, herh ehtrh es bend ma e up o se tie eehhe tee by b Hand-sac et ieih e, lbfi ihl tially as described,

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scribed.

3 8. In a hernial truss, the combination,with MILTON BARKER the pad supporting band, of a pad block In presence ofmounted thereon having transverse holes, JAS. F. WILLIAMSON,

and a transversely-adjustable pad mounted EMMA F. ELMORE. 

